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Technologies are changing radically; different organizations and institutions are using various core, allied technologies to make the things, systems, services, and product easier. The development of computing and information technology is changing massively; and as far as agriculture sector is concerned it is also increased in recent past. There are various technologies and systems in respect of agricultural promotion and development. Information technology is dedicated in information related activities in agriculture and allied activities. There are many reasons for the uses of IT and Computing in the Agriculture, namely, huge amount of crops, plants and agricultural product requirement, speed, disease detection, sustainable development promotion, and quality enhancement of agricultural products. Artificial intelligence (AI) powered solutions helps agricultural systems to do more in all sorts with less and further it helps in developing the quality of agro products and ensures faster go-to-market for crops. The complete agriculture landscape been changed by AI and there are many potentialities in regard to the applications of AI and allied technologies, namely, drone-based image processing and precision farming landscape. Different organizations, institutions associated with the agriculture are doing efforts on technological integration and especially AI due to its wider benefits. This paper is theoretical one and talks about the basics of AI and Robotics, Agricultural Informatics and specially applications of AI and Robotics in Agriculture and similar activities.

This document is a contribution of the EU-funded project DESIRA to the debate on the ‘Long-term vision for rural areas’ (LTVRA), which offers a multi-actor research and innovation perspective and evidence. We focus on a question, ‘How can digitalisation shape and influence the future of the forestry sector in 2040?’ with a particular focus on the competitiveness of the sector and sustainability of forestry resources in Europe.

Code and data of the paper "Innovations in movement and behavioural ecology from camera traps: day range as model parameter" published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution (2021) - 10.1111/2041-210X.13609 - {"references": ["Innovations in movement and behavioural ecology from camera traps: day range as model parameter"]}

Robot is a machine that is powered by Artificial Intelligence and allied technologies. The Robot is run with a programmable computer and does various tasks and activities automatically. The robotics systems are normally considered as integrated systems built inside of the systems and also associated with the external controlling mechanism. It is important to note that a robot need not always looks like a human being.It is applicable in diverse areas and among these important are healthcare, business, agriculture, transportation, manufacturing, etc. In the field of agriculture, Robotics is dedicated for various pre and post production activities of agriculture and similar sectors. Previously only harvesting considered as important regarding the robotics applications in agriculture but currently, there are many concerns where robotics and artificial intelligence (including similar systems) can be adopted such as drone for the applications in weed controlling, plant seeding, environmental assessing and monitoring, soil mapping and analysis, etc. Information Technology in agricultural practices is also supported with various allied technologies viz. Cloud Computing, Big Data, HCI, Usability Engineering, Robotics, and AI, etc. According to the market, this growth of robotics is increasing and will be high very soon. This paper is a kind of review on robotics including its role in the field of agriculture and discusses the issues and challenges of AI and Robotics in the context of developing countries

Environment is not only an important concern for all of us but also a field of study viz. Environment Studies, Environmental Systems and Engineering, Environmental System and Management, etc. Apart from these few other nomenclatures are Environmental Statistics, Environmental Informatics, etc. As far as Environmental Informatics is concerned it is composed of the Environment including allied branches and also Informatics including other allied branches. Environmental Informatics is used different means for environmental management, monitoring and development using technologies. Different tools, techniques and technologies of Computing and Information Technology are very much important in developing healthy Environmental Informatics practices. Among the emerging technologies, few important are Cloud Computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics are very important in healthy Environmental practices. Robotics is an emerging technology gaining rapidly for various development of the environment related aspects and process. Robotics is the aspect of the involvement of the designing, development, and operation of robots; which comes with intelligent systems and human like assistance using technologies. Robotics in the recent past become a field of study and contributed from branches like Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, etc. As far as Environmental Informatics is concerned, it is applicable in diverse and emerging areas and all such are depicted here in this paper.